Banks & Banking

This edition brings together the most important English language tracts and pamphlets and other material on the origins and development of private banking, joint stock banking, central banking and other important related questions.Book InformationISBN...

A central bank needs authority and a sphere of independent action. But a central bank cannot become an unelected Czar with sweeping, unaccountable discretionary power. How can we balance the central bank's authority and independence with needed...

This book conducts a simulation study creating universal, hypothetical bank holding companies (BHCs) through mergers to examine whether BHC expansion into nonbank business areas, those currently prohibited by law, will increase the riskiness of the...

This book is a study of how expanded bank powers could affect the banking industry in the US. Using contemporaneous measures, expanded data, a finer classification of industries, risk-reducing behavior, and the legal and regulatory environment this...

Probably no issue during the most recent financial crisis aroused more passion than financial institution bailouts. Focusing on the policymaking behind the decisions to bail out these institutions-not just during the most recent crisis, but also...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780761873280Author Henrietta OkoroFormat PaperbackPage Count 216Imprint Hamilton BooksPublisher Hamilton BooksWeight(grams) 152g

This book investigates the main features of the evolution of the co-operative banking model in European countries, using 'country case-study' analysis. Structured in two parts, the first deals with a sample of countries that joined the European Union...

This new edition of American Poverty in a New Era of Reform provides a comprehensive examination of the extent, causes, effects, and costs of American poverty nearly ten years after the passage of the Personal Responsibility and Work Opportunity...

This volume presents a clear and concise explanation of why the American banking crisis of 1933 occurred. The bulk of the book analyses the actual events of the final major panic which was ushered in by the closing down of the banks in the State of...

This edition brings together the most important English language tracts and pamphlets and other material on the origins and development of private banking, joint stock banking, central banking and other important related questions.Book InformationISBN...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781788214049Author Andrew WhitworthFormat HardbackPage Count 240Imprint Agenda PublishingPublisher Agenda Publishing

Prompted by the widespread curiosity aroused by the proceedings of the Parker Bank Rate Tribunal, the author has written a non-technical account of daily life in a City office and Boardroom. The author describes the ways in which money is put to work,...

Banking Associations, as business associations representing the interests of its members (banks) at the national level, in today's changing regulatory and economic environment have an increasingly important role not only in the Banking sector but in the...

Sophisticated banking is vital for modern society to function and prosper. Banks lend to individuals and corporations but do so after carefully exploring the risks they undertake to each customer. This book examines the important role of lending in...

Despite the political potency of money and banking issues, historians have largely dismissed the Progressive Era political debate over banking as irrelevant and have been preoccupied with explaining the shortcomings, limitations and inadequacies of the...

The globalization of the world economy today means that more and more people are experiencing working in another culture. Focusing on the real experiences of workers in Japanese transnational finance companies, this book not only throws light on this...

Credit Risk Management will enable general bankers, staff, and credit analyst trainees to understand the basic information and principles underlying credit risk evaluation, and to use those underlying principles to undertake an analysis of non financial...

This book empirically examines banking reform in the economies of Southeast Asia as they sought to adapt to major developments in the global economic system over the past three decades, including the globalisation of finance, the debt crisis of the 1980s...

"This new book on retail banking is both readable and innovative. Its analysis is unusually accessible in its style, and the book's conclusions and predictions will be rightly thought provoking. The customer is gaining real power and this new book's...

This and the following volume chart the history of financial institutions in England in the mid-late nineteenth century as well as examining the periods of boom and bust, their causes and effects. Using hitherto unpublished sources from the International...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781946633729Author Chris ZadehFormat HardbackPage Count 376Imprint ForbesbooksPublisher ForbesbooksDimensions(mm) 229mm * 152mm * 28mm

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781883249441Author Frank J. FabozziFormat HardbackPage Count 222Imprint Frank J. Fabozzi AssociatesPublisher Frank J. Fabozzi AssociatesWeight(grams) 486g

Due to a historical lack of attention to the importance of modelling, measuring and managing risk, senior bank leaders are struggling to implement unified practices within their financial institutions that could address the gaps posed by risky management...

The second volume of the history of the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD) takes up the story of how the Bank has become an indispensable part of the international financial architecture. It tracks the rollercoaster ride during this...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781119506508Author Brett KingFormat HardbackPage Count 352Imprint John Wiley & Sons IncPublisher John Wiley & Sons IncWeight(grams) 666g

Directed both at students of international finance and practitioners in the field, the book stresses the importance of treating the analysis of sovereign risk in a more general framework than is typically the case, identifying the components of both the...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780881324235Author Daniel K. TarulloFormat PaperbackPage Count 256Imprint The Peterson Institute for International EconomicsPublisher The Peterson Institute...

This book provides detailed systematic micro-level analysis of the historical development of the Chinese banking industry, focusing in particular on the development of the Bank of China (BOC) in the period 1905 to 1949. Banking reform is a key area of...

Are public banks a better alternative to private banks? Do they provide sufficient finance for development? Do they serve as stability anchors in financial markets? This is an invaluable comparison of public banks from countries at different economic...

This book, first published in 1987, examines American international finance and banking, and the affect that the United States had in the world economy. This book will be of interest to students of finance and economics.Book InformationISBN...

Community banking can flourish in the face of fintech and global competition with a fresh approach to strategy Bankruption + Website offers a survival guide for community banks and credit unions searching for relevance amidst immense global competition...

Witness how the FDIC manages your money during financial crises Inside the FDIC tells the real stories behind bank failures and financial crises to provide a direct account of the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation and other bank regulators. Author...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780902869370Author Eric ToussaintFormat PaperbackPage Count 334Imprint Resistance BooksPublisher Resistance Books

This account of the financial crisis of 2008-2009 compares banking systems in the United States and the United Kingdom to those of Canada and Australia and explains why the system imploded in the former but not the latter. Central to this analysis are...

The last decade has seen the increasing integration of European financial markets due to a number of factors including the creation of a common regulatory framework, the liberalisation of international capital movements, financial deregulation, advances...

This book was written at a time when the market for government stocks in London, the gilt-edged market of the title, had undergone a period of rapid innovation in the forms of its instruments - index-linked stocks, variable rate stocks, and other new...

This and the previous volume chart the history of financial institutions in England in the mid-late nineteenth century as well as examining the periods of boom and bust, their causes and effects. Using hitherto unpublished sources from the International...

Taking financial risks is an essential part of what banks do, but there's no clear sense of what constitutes responsible risk. Taking legal risks seems to have become part of what banks do as well. Since the financial crisis, Congress has passed copious...

Beginning with a theoretical analysis of housing finance in the context of housing markets and financial intermediation generally, the authors then analyse, drawing on international experience, each of the main types of housing finance system: informal,...

Detailed, actionable guidance for expanding your revenue in the face of a new virtual market Written by industry authority Charles H. Green, Banker's Guide to New Small Business Finance explains how a financial bust from one perfect storm-the real...